What is recorded here

Enclosure in Ballydonegan is a D-shaped lios overlooking Ballydonegan Bay in County Cork, Ireland. Its straight edge spans 21.7 metres east-west while the curve projects 21 metres south, bounded by a one-metre scarp on two sides and a lower earthen bank elsewhere. A burial ground sits eleven metres to the northeast, suggesting the enclosure marked or contained death itself rather than ordinary life. The gentle southwest slope invites imagination about who walked there, what they buried beside it, and why they shaped the earth into a half-moon facing the water.

In pasture, overlooking Ballydonegan Bay. D-shaped area (straight side 21.7m E-W; projecting 21m to S). Interior defined by scarp (H 1m) to S and W; by low earthen bank (H 0.9m) elsewhere; slopes down gently to SW. Locally known as a "lios". Burial ground (CO127-004002-) 11m to NE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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